Broadcaster Press 11 November 24, 2015 www.broadcasteronline.com Prentis Park Pool Plans and slides down to about 4-feet of water. There will be an in water bench which will be almost a blocker for the pool, because one of the concerns was we were taking away the wading pool. There will be two big slides, one a tube slide and the other a body slide. We are going to have a six-lane 25-meter pool, where we will keep 1.5 lanes open and dedicated to lap swimmers, at this time. A large floatable play feature. A By Shauna Marlette low-dive similar to what we shauna.marlette@plainhave now.” talk.net Goblirsch expanded on a few of the items. The Prentis Park pool “The bathhouse will have project is heading into excit- a rolled up door so we have ing times. a nice access and people Up until now, all of the will not have to be opening work on the project has and closing doors,” he said. been either in planning or “They can go right up to the behind the scenes work, but counter, where we will have Vermillion Park and Recreaa multi-level counter for ADA tion director Jim Goblirsch necessity, as well as a little informed the Vermillion City bit higher counter for safety Council on Monday that it reasons. It will have a big is time to move forward and open ceiling. There will be bid out the project. men’s and women’s changing “On Dec. 7, I am going to rooms, as well as two family come to the council and ask changing rooms, one of those for your approval to put the will be ADA accessible, the bonds out for bid,” he said. other will not. We will have a “We will be asking for you to roof over everything. “ authorize the bidding of this He said the two slides will project, which we are lookprovide thrills for younger ing to do in early January. children and older alike. December 7 is the meeting “The big slide is a tube we have scheduled for the slide which will then be authorization of that.” allowed to go into the lazy Goblirsch said that things river,” he said. “So, you won’t are progressing very well at even have to get off the tube, Prentis Park. you can just keep riding “As you can see there around the river. It is a little have been some additions to bit of a slower slide and we the Prentis Park Ball Field, will have tubes for both one with the restrooms finished and two person riders, which for both the baseball field will be nice in allowing peoand the park,” he said. “The ple to change up who they go baseball field trees have down with. The other slide is been trimmed, with some of more of a speed slide, a thrill them being cleared. The elec- factor. We wanted to include tric company has done a nice something a little bit more exjob over there rerouting the citing for our older children. power throughout the park We think it will compare to for the parking lots and the the high dive. The enclosed pool. A lot of that groundtube slide will have what work that we can see has looks like neon lights coming been done. It is nice to get through. There will be a full that stuff done so when the canopy over the slide structime comes to break ground ture to provide some shade on our other projects we can for our slide attendants up move forward quickly.” on top. We will get a bid from As for what is planned at the construction company as the pool area of Prentis Park, well as two other vendors.” Goblirsch said it is very simiGoblirsch said the theme lar to what was proposed to of the park will be sports. the public. “It is pretty generic but “There probably won’t be has a lot of color,” he said. a final design until Dec. 7,” “We will put a slide feature in he said. “It isn’t too far away the zero-depth area that will from the original design. Not allow kids to slide off it, climb too much has changed. The on it. It is a softer plastic and same features we have been telling you about, just more solid ideas.” Those solid ideas include many that the board expressed their excitement over. “We are looking to put in a double cantilever twopole shade structure for the concession area,” Goblirsch said. “It will provide 30x38 foot structure that will provide lots of shade. We are looking at putting a similar structure in the pool area instead of a solid structure because the cost is about three times less. He gave a general overview of the new facility. “The lazy river will be roughly 180-feet long,” Goblirsch said. “There will be a zero-depth entry on the pool. So, it starts at no water will allow for a lot of interactivity with all of the features coming off it. Some of the other features will be little shooters where the water shoots out of it.” He said one feature that he is excited about is the water walk. “What a water walk area is, is where the kids crawl across four or five floating flat soft items,” he said. “We are looking to see if we need another float. The one big feature in the lap pool will be a floating baseball bat similar to the alligator at Wild Water West in Sioux Falls, which will be removable. This will be for the older kids, 10-14 years old.” He said there will be shade structures that will have multi-colored tops. They are planned to be 15x15 feet. But the placement of them has not been decided. “These features we will ask for included in the base bid as well as ask for additional bids,” Goblirsch said. “They will be installed by the contractor so we do have a warrantee. The volume of water will be less than what is used in the current pool, but it will be more usable water. We really tried to meet all levels of age groups. We tried to design it so everyone has something to do. 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